As Judicial Watch observed, Sidney Blumenthal could not be far behind:

Shearer in fact has long been linked to the sleaziest aspects of the Clinton operation, mainly through his close relationship with Clinton confidant Sidney Blumenthal. Longtime observers of the Clinton ecosystem know that when Cody appears, Sid Blumenthal is not far behind. A ceaseless schemer, Blumenthal was so offensive to the Obama White House that he was banned from an official role at Mrs. Clinton’s State Department. But that barely slowed him down. As documented by Judicial Watch and others, Blumenthal was a constant presence by Mrs. Clinton’s side during her State Department years.

Now more information is coming out suggesting Blumenthal direct involvement with Steele.

Jordan was asked about a possible second dossier and said Clinton operatives Sidney Blumenthal and Cody Shearer had paid Christopher Steele to do opposition research, but then told Steele which specific details to include.

“The names we keep hearing are Sidney Blumenthal and Cody Shearer — people who have been around the Clintons as being a part of this. But I also think it’s kind of interesting because what it looks like is, they paid Steele to put together the dossier and told him what to put in,” Jordan said. “Talk about rigging the game and putting together a document that will serve your purposes as an opposition research document.”

“Phase one of our investigation was getting to the FISA abuse. What we’re looking at now is the State Department and some of the irregularities there,” Nunes said Monday, noting that the committee has “several other areas” to probe. He first mentioned the next “phase” of the investigation Friday on Fox News’ “Special Report.”

During an interview on Fox News, Gowdy was asked by Fox News’ Martha MacCallum about whether “weeks before the election, somebody in the Obama State Department was feeding information from a foreign source to Christopher Steele.” MacCallum had previously asked a question on whether Gowdy knew anything about “a source who gave an unnamed associate of Hillary and Bill Clinton who then gave information to an unnamed official in the Obama state department who then gave the information to Steele.”

“When you hear who the source, one of the sources of that information is, you’re going to think, oh, my gosh, I’ve heard that name somewhere before. Where could it possibly have been,” Gowdy replied.

When asked whether it was a foreign source, the South Carolina Republican said it was domestic.

“I’m trying to think of how Secretary Clinton defined him. I think she said he was an old friend who emailed her from time to time,” Gowdy said.

So who care if Sidney Blumenthal was involved in paying for the Steele dossier? This should not surprise anyone. Blumenthal is a distraction. What is important here is what was done with the Steele memo and by whom. That was the crime. Calling Blumenthal names will get you nowhere. Giving a round dozen senior FBI, DOJ and Obama Administration officials the choice of being Bubba’s cellmate for the next 10 years or ratting out their bosses who were involved is what is important.

The Grassley criminal referral quotes from the FISA application and makes it quite clear that the judge was not told that the dossier was the product of opposition research.

More importantly, it is clear that the warrant is entirely based on the credibility of Steele, and that the FBI didn’t tell the judge about Steele hawking the dossier to news organizations. Somebody lied. Steele or the FBI.

I agree that we need to go after government personnel who made this happen, but a political “Hit job” is really no different than an actual “hit job”, you have to take out the actors, but you also have to get the ones that paid for and orchestrated it, and that means top level democrats. My hope is, they are laying the groundwork for the government employees who are the actors, to squeal on the puppet masters. They better start talking soon, before they start committing suicide…

The Dems are toast, if you get to the top of this conspiracy. And, it reached all the way to the WH and into the Oval Office.

This surveillance operation was approved at the HIGHEST levels. The Strzock/Page texts are bringing the POTUS into the mix as early as September 2016. The primary purpose of the entire Russia/Trump Collusion case has been to protect Barrack Obama, and those close to him. This did not occur in a near vacuum. The reason why the Dems were willing to shutdown the government on the weekend after the Nunes memo came out, and restart it on the following Monday without gaining anything re: DACA, was because it keeps the surveillance investigation alive. And, as long as it continues, it will eventually lead to indictments against a number of high ranking Obama officials. And, this is just one of the Obama Administration Scandals, which could result in criminal charges. The avalanche is just getting started.

The Dems, as a relevant political party are on the ropes and a significant scandal, especially one that involves a large number of indictments of Obama officials and placing Obama, himself, in the position of Richard Nixon, will likely take the party down. Blumenthal did nothing illegal, unless he paid to have the “dossiers” drafted KNOWING that they would be used to suborn the FISA court to fraudulently obtain a warrant. And, the current timeline makes that difficult to prove. But, place evidence that the POTUS knew of this operation, while it was ongoing, or possibly before it was launched, and you have REAL leverage. Barry is, after all, a law school graduate [we think].

Do not allow yourselves to get dragged out into the weeds on this. Stay on the Yellow Brick Road all the way to the Oval Office. Blumenthal is merely a distraction. This is an attempt to make this look like a small group of Dem operatives within the FBI and DOJ were being run wholly by non-government actors. Follow the Yellow Brick Road.

You may recall that back in 2009, Perkins Coie received A LOT of money (reports say $1MM) from Barry Soretoro / Barack Obama to prevent his long form (paper) Birth Certificate from ever seeing the light of day. Around the same time his odd looking Selective Service Card made a public appearance and all his college transcripts were sealed up tight.

The issue is not that Blumenthal helped pay for it. It is that Blumenthal provided unverified salacious rumors for inclusion in the dossier. I can think of one involving prostitutes that I need not mention further.

In short, the suggestion is that Steele laundered rumors and through his “trusted source” status, magically turned rumors into raw intelligence from a longstanding ally.

As for the judge, I’ve seen a war of leaks on this point for days. The truth seems to be somewhere in the middle: the DoJ informed the court of the political origins of the dossier… in a footnote that may, or may not, have actually been read by the judge.

So the race is on. Will the truth come out before November or will the dems take th echo use to stop the investigations into the dirty tricks of HRC and company.
Seems like to me that Gowdy has been set free to get the truth out.
Schiff for brains is destroying himself.
Pelosi still thinks Bush is president
That leaves Obama and jarret. Hmmm

(OT, but related – who did Trey Gowdy’s makeup?! That person must be a leftist who wanted him to look horrible – the pink around his eyes with all that pancake makeup makes him look like he is bug-eyed, even not lucid. How the left hate anyone who doesn’t have a “D” next to their name, or etched into their foreheads…….)